Infinix Zero 5 Review, Specs and Price in Nigeria

Infinix Zero 5 is a very nice smartphone that was released in 2017. The phone is furthermore one of the best Infinix smartphones available in the market. Even though this smartphone was released in the previous the year, there are a very few 2018 smartphones that can compete with it. The smart device is well-known for its massive RAM and storage. The phone is also known for its epic cameras.

Infinix Zero 5 Review

Infinix Zero 5 was released in November 2017, to push the Zero series forward. The release rendered Zero 4 obsolete after Zero 4 has been the icon of the series for about a year. Before the end of this year, it is very likely Note 6 will be released. However, the upcoming release of Note 6 should not dissuade a person from buying Zero 5 as Zero 5 comes with specs and features higher than the 2018 standard.

As Infinix Zero 5 is a 2017 high-end smartphone, the phone comes with the support for 4G networks. Users of this smartphone can use 4G networks, as long as they have a 4G-supported SIM card inserted into the phone.

The SIM card that must be inserted into the phone, is a 4G-supported micro-SIM card, to use a 4G network. For a user who has a nano-SIM, some intelligence will be required to make the SIM work with this smartphone.

Infinix Zero 5 has a very nice appearance. Aside from being a high-end smartphone, the design of the phone has been one of its major selling points. The device is attractive and very sleek.

Mere looking at it, a user can tell it is a high-end smartphone. This design is a result of hard work put up by one of the best design teams at Infinix Mobility. The smartphone is somewhat heavy and comes in only three colours. Zero 5 can be bought in any of the following colours gold, matte black, and apple red.

Infinix Zero 5 has a display which is very close to the standard of 2018 high-end smartphones. The display of the smart device is a 5.98 inches (15.19 cm) display, whereas 6.00 inches is the standard of 2018 smartphones.

This 5.98 inches display has a cool resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. With this resolution, the graphics of this smartphone will be epic. Giving a better idea of how epic the graphics of this smart phone’s display is, the display has a pixel density of 368 pixels per inch (ppi).

Just like the icon of Infinix’s Note series, Infinix Zero 5 is championed by a MediaTek Helio chipset. However, the chipset that champions Infinix Zero 5 is superior to those of Note 5 and Zero 4. MediaTek Helio P25 is the chipset that champions Infinix Zero 5.

The chipset is an octa-core chipset and its high-speed processors are twice as fast as the processors of typical mid-range smartphones. In other words, if it takes a typical mid-range smartphone 20 minutes to complete a task, it will take Infinix Zero 5 10 minutes to complete the same tasks.

Infinix Mobility does not only equip Zero 5 with an overkill chipset but also equip the smartphone with an overkill random access memory. The random access memory featured by Infinix Zero 5 has a capacity of 6 GB. This is two times the standard 3GB RAM expected from high-end smartphones.

With a RAM as large as this, this smartphone can run any Android app, regardless of how heavy it is. This RAM does not only give users of this phone room to run heavy apps, it also gives users of the phone room to run multiple heavy apps at the same time.

There are two variants of Infinix Zero 5. There exists the 64 GB variant and the 128 GB variant. The 64 GB variant has a flash storage with a storage capacity of 64 GB. The 128 GB has a storage capacity of 128 GB.

While a 64 GB internal storage is more than adequate for a typical high-end user, the 128 GB variant of this phone can be bought by people who crave for storage space larger than 64 GB. Just like most Android smartphones, Zero 5 supports storage space expansion. As expected, only micro SD cards not more than 2 TB can be used for storage space expansion.

Discussion

CHIPSET

Infinix Zero 5 is powered by a MediaTek chipset. The chipset that powers this smartphone belongs to a family of chipset called Helio. Helio is a family of first-class chipsets.

These chipsets are referred to as first-class chipsets because of their excellence in all aspects. They are powerful, durable and very power efficient. Their excellence in computing is what makes them the goto family for manufacturers looking for high-end MediaTek chipsets.

The MediaTek chipset that champions Infinix Zero 5 is MediaTek Helio P25. MediaTek Helio P25 is one of the top chipsets in the family. The chipset is furthermore an octa-core chipset, as expected.

Four of the processors of this chipset are high-speed processors, while the other four processors of the chipset have a standard processing speed.

The high-speed processors in Infinix Zero 5 can operate at the same maximum speed which is 2.60 GHz. The speed is no doubt a very high one, compared to the standard of mid-range smartphones.

Since a typical mid-range smartphone operates at 1.30 GHz, it is okay to say that Zero 5 can operate twice as fast as typical mid-range smartphones. However, the chipset would not operate at 2.60 GHz, unless necessary; this is just a way of saving power.

BATTERY

Infinix Zero 5 does not only have powerful hardware, the phone also has a powerful battery that powers the active electronic components of this smartphone. Featuring such a powerful battery is necessary because a majority of the hardware of this smartphone will consume power than those of regular Android smartphones.

Zero 5 will not be the first smartphone to come with a battery as powerful as this. In fact, we have smartphones that come with batteries much more powerful than this.

While featuring a very powerful battery is a very nice thing for a smart device, it is not so cool if these batteries take several hours to charge fully. Owing to this, Infinix Zero 5 has a system that charges battery rapidly. With this system, the 4350 mAh battery in the smartphone will take just about 3 hours to be fully charged.

STORAGE

One of the aspects in which smartphones have grown massively is in the aspect of storage. In the days of Java phones, a typical smartphone has just a few megabytes of free storage space.

However, things have evolved so fast that just a single picture will occupy the total free space of phones of those days. In today’s world, we talk in terms of gigabytes when talking about storage space, not megabytes.

There are two editions of Infinix Zero 5, and they differ only by their internal storage capacity. One of the two editions has a flash storage with a capacity of 64 GB. This storage space is clearly too much for a lot of smartphone users.

However, we have smartphone users who are storage-space hungry. It is for this kind of user that the 128 GB edition of this smartphone was designed. With any of these editions, a user can have many heavy games permanently on their smartphone.

The operating system of Infinix Zero 5 is housed on its internal storage device. It is not housed any special storage device. This means the usable portion of the storage device is less than 64 GB.

If a user runs out of storage space, it is impossible for them to delete their operating system, to provide more storage space. Apart from the fact that the OS would not allow such, doing it will also render the smartphone useless.

Just like almost all Android smartphones, Infinix Zero 5 supports the use of micro SD cards which are popularly known as the memory card. With the help, a micro SD card, the storage space of the smartphone can be expanded

While the majority of phones support storage expansion up to 256 GB, this smartphone supports expansion up to 2 TB. Although micro SD cards larger than 2 TB hardly exist, if a user, however, finds one, such a micro SD should not be inserted into the smartphone.

OS

Infinix Zero 5 is outstanding in all aspects, except in the aspect of the operating system. The phone comes with Android 7.0 Nougat which is not the 2018 standard for high-end smartphones.

Although Android Nougat is not necessarily bad, high-end smartphones are expected to run a state-of-art operating system or something close. Putting in other words, this smartphone is expected to run either Android 8.0 Oreo or Android 9.0 Pie.

Even though Infinix Zero 5 does not run the kind of OS expected from 2018 phones, it does not mean the device is useless. First and foremost, this smartphone was released in 2017, when neither 8.0 Oreo or 9.0 Pie have been released. In other words, there is no way the smartphone could have run something better than Nougat. Secondly, there exist great chances that this smartphone will get OS upgrade, so the smartphone should not be condemned.

DISPLAY

The display of Infinix Zero 5 is a very cool display. This display belongs to the in-plane switching family and comes with a very high pixel density. The pixel density of the phone’s display reads 368 pixels per inch. Delving deeper into details of this phone’s display, the smartphone has a display of 5.98 inches (15.19 cm). This 5.98 inches display of the phone has a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.

CAMERAS

Infinix Zero 5 has three cameras. Two of the cameras are on the rear side of the phone, while the third camera is in the front of the smart device. The selfie camera of Zero 5 is a 16 MP camera. This camera is one of the best Android cameras. The back cameras of this smartphone, are a 12 MP camera and a 13 MP camera.

Infinix Zero 5 Full Specs and Features

STATUS

Announcement Status: Announced

Announcement: November 2017

Release Status: Released

Release: November 2017

NETWORK

2G: Yes, GSM (850/900/1800/1900)

3G: Yes, HSDPA (850/900/1700/1900/2100)

4G: Yes, LTE

SIM

Count: Dual SIM

Type: Micro SIM

APPEARANCE

Dimension: N/A

Weight: N/A

Thickness: N/A

Colours: Gold, Matte Black and Apple Red

Case Type: Metal

DISPLAY

Size: 5.98 inches

Type: high-definition (HD) in-plane switching (IPS) LCD

Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels

Pixel Density: 368 pixels per inch (ppi)

RAM

Size: 6 GB

Type: SD-RAM

CHIPSET

Manufacturer: MediaTek

Model: Helio P25

Cores: 8 cores (octa-core)

Speed: 2.60 GHz

OS

Type: Android

Version: 7.0 (Nougat)

Edition: N/A

STORAGE

Size: 64 GB/128 GB

Expansion Support: Yes

Expansion Limit: 2 TB

CAMERAS

Total: 3 cameras

Front Camera: 16 MP

Rear Camera: 13 MP + 12 MP

Front LED Flash: Yes

Rear LED Flash: Yes

FINGERPRINT SCANNER

Fingerprint Scanner: Yes

Position: Rear

GPU

GPU: Mali

Speed: N/A

TECHNOLOGIES

Wi-Fi (Mobile Hotspot)

Bluetooth

USB-OTG

GPS

SENSORS

Accelerometer

Gyroscope

Proximity Sensor

Compass

Light Sensor

BATTERY

Type: Li-Ion

Capacity: 4350 mAh

Rapid-charge system: Yes

Infinix Zero 5 Price in Nigeria

Infinix Zero 5 price in Nigeria ranges from 100,000 Naira to 110,000 Naira and is available for purchase on Jumia, Konga, Slot and other e-commerce stores online as well as in offline stores across Nigeria such as 3C HUB, Microstation, Pointek, etc.